Improvement in zinc moldings for coffins



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GEORGE S. EATON, OF VITILLIAMSBURG, NEW YORK.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 150,233, dated April28, 1874 application filed April 4, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE S. EATON, of Williamsburg, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Spelter Shell- Moldings, of which the following is a specification:

Figure lis a face view of a piece of my improved molding. Fig. 2 is across-section of the same, taken through the line :v :0, Fig. l. Fig. 3represents a die for forming the molding.

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My invention has for its object to furnish an improved shell-molding foruse upon coffins and for other uses, which shall be so constructed thatit may be bent around a curved surface without wrinkling at its edges.The invention consists in an improved zinc shellmolding, having iangesformed along the inner sides of its side edges, as hereinafter fullydescribed.

A represent-s a piece of my improved molding, which is made in the formof a section of a cylinder, and which has iianges a formed upon theinner sides of its edges, as shown in Figs. l and 2. The molding A a isformed by drawing strips of sheet-zinc through an ordinary die forforming metallic moldings by the ordinary means, and without a plug orkey. The strips of zinc are made a little wider than the curved surfaceof the discharge-oriiice of the die, so that the surplus metal may beforced inward by the flat surface of the cavity of the die to form theflanges a. This Similar letters of reference indicate corre!`- effectcould not be produced upon brass or other similar elastic metal, as suchmetal would wrinkle instead of having its edges forced inward to formflanges; but with a non-elastic or dead metal, such as zinc, the body ofthe molding will be smooth and perfect, and the metal of its yedges willbe forced inward and form the Bauges. of the molding may then bepolished, plated with copper, and then plated with silver, in the usualway. A zinc molding havingthe iianges c formed upon its edges may bebent around a curved surface, and, being without elasticity, will t uponsaid surface without any tendency to spring off.

Where the molding is required to be bent laterally, a lilled molding ofa corresponding form and size may be used for forming said curve.

Another advantage of my improved molding is its extreme cheapness, as itmay be made and sold much lower than ordinary moldings.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters PatA ent- An improved zinc shell-molding, A, having iianges aformed along the inner sides of its side edges, substantially as hereinshown and described.

GEORGE S. EATON.

Witnesses:

.Timms T. GRAHAM, T. B. MosHEr..

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